- Children who study and play together built the lasting bonds. This is very true in my own personal experience. So on that basis, I was glad that KJ raised the issue of developing a new school system for the country. Unfortunately, the champions of VC have immediately put a caveat for their own selfish reasons by raising their legal and political excuses.
- I am not sure what KJ has in mind but if I am the given the chance I would approach it with a firm commitment and get all the political parties to agree on the plan before it goes public. This is to avoid anyone from using the issue as a political tool. My plan is simple which can be outline by several simple steps:
- Create a new school type. Let say we call it Sekolah (Rendah or Menengah) Negara (SN).
- Outline the basic structure of SN where for mother tongue, English and BM is promoted as a compulsory subject to all students. The type of mother tongue, I assume would be different for those in Peninsular and east Malaysia.
- Create incentive for all type of SK, SKJT and SKJC to encourage them to convert their current school into the SN scheme within a specific time frame.
- Incentive would be in the form of financial as well as equal merit points for entry in local universities and application of government scholarship. The decision-making should be left to each school parents by taking a consensus approach.
- Those schools that chose not to be converted into Sekolah Negara will have to be converted into a private school and run independently. They will be given a one-time grant and they need to find ways to be self-sufficient. These schools will be subjected to Private School Act, which will outline the way they will conduct their education practices.
- I am sure like any new plan and ideas, it has to go trough a series of vetting process. If we stay focus and put the national integration as the primary objectives, I believe we would be able to find a decent solution.
- The ball I believe lies with the MOE.
Kempen SSS 
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